Why do you not play Ramattra?

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I am quite surprised by the disappearance of this hero over time and I’m curious why people stopped playing Ramattra.

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I find him boring to be honest

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I wonder what you think of playing Mauga. No really. At least Ram has some stuff to do and has to use cooldowns intelligently.

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Mauga is also boring to me… An over bloated tank… oh joy the fun of that… not…

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I enjoy Ramattra because I feel like you have an insane amount of utility.

  • An instantly generated shield has quite a bit of utility on either defense, approach, protecting an ally, to walling off a sniper perch, to blocking heals behind a tank.
  • You have access to a long range poking projectile to let you poke literally anything.
  • You have instant on demand access to a 75% dmg reduction block that can let you reduce damage on explosions or sudden bursts of damage that would have been hit through on shields.
  • You have the 65 dmg bursts on pummel, the shield ignore, and AoE damage.
  • The anti-vertical air trap, the slowing field, and the utility that has on separating enemies.

His abilities naturally flow into each other on the defensive rotations. I find him much fun, but I can’t do much to keep allies up since they tend to die quickly in the rear. Many times I do feel like I need to play other tanks for a specific counter.

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Because the universe is singing to me!

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If I play tank its either Dva, Orisa, or Sigma… But I don’t play much tank unless Mystery heros gives me one… otherwise I more enjoy keeping my tanks alive

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I do play Ramattra, but Mauga has discouraged me from tanking altogether. When he gets nerfed I’ll pick him up again. I feel like he’s in a really good spot after his buffs.

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Yea I agree. Well, I don’t play him at all, but as I main support, I see Ram players pulling off a lot of decision making on who to punish with nemesis, where to shield, and exactly when to steamroll enemy team with his ult.

I feel like the only time the Mauga player makes any kind of decision is when to stuff Cheetos in his mouth (pretty sure it’s anytime they are not ulting)

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He and Doom are actually my favorite tanks to play, but I almost never play tank.

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I like his primary and the rest of him well enough as far as male Tanks go, but somehow, the ladies always seem to get the kits I click with so I’m not generally going to pick him when I could be playing D.Va or JQ or even Orisa instead.

Doesn’t help that I hate all his skins besides the default and that’s tired at this point.

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Jokes on you I love getting Ram’d

Okay but fr I do like playing Ram, he’s one of my most played tanks atm

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I’ve had mixed success iwth Rama vs Mauga. Ana + Mauga sucks. Otherwise, Mauga and any other support pair isn’t bad. THough, yeah, I’ve had to use Sigma more.

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Rn? It’s because i loved his nemisis form and lately it feels like it’s not worth using. Before they had similar dps and both had their pros and cons. After his staff buff and armor buff it feels like going nemisis is a direct downgrade. Less damage and range + 4 times larger for a bit more armor.

Not saying it’s bad but i feels like it’s damage needs to be balanced out with staff and block needs a little something. It’s not good for engagement or disengagement and since it’s on a time limit it isn’t useful for healing either. I almost feel like id be better off with a 250 hp Sigma barrier that stayed right in front of my center mass

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I play Doom on attack and him on defense, or Hog, he’s awesome, but I guess some people prefer to play the boring hawaiian man this meta.

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Ram’s pick rate fell off a cliff after the ultimate cost nerf back in August. People were taking advantage of popping it every other fight and once that crutch was rightfully taken away, they jumped ship for the next easiest thing.

And, of course, there’s the elephant in the room. No, not the one with miniguns, I mean the other one. Okay, not Hog either, although he doesn’t help. I mean Ana. I’m talking about Ana.

I’d love to be able to somehow trade in Nemesis’ cooldown to get my barrier back online faster. Like pressing E while barrier’s on cooldown lowers the cooldown by an amount, but puts Nemeis on cooldown as payment. The flexibility would be great.

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hes a blocking simulator and is really boring. his shield in omnic doesn’t feel engaging, and his cooldowns feel too high for a tempo tank.

plus mauga

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He’s very slow and boring. His excessive casting times prohibit him from ever chaining abilities in ways that feel like skillful combos, making his kit unengaging for me.

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He requires having 2 supports that are not brain damaged in his team.

Good luck with that.

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I often wonder the same thing. He is one of the strongest tanks. His sustain with shield and a block that lasts what seems like forever make him hard to kill. And in nemesis he can wipe half your team (lower ranks).

I think he suffers the same issue as mauga and orisa - he is boring. He has a fairly fixed cycle of CDs that he does pretty much on a timer and it isn’t very fun to do. Standing there blocking for ages, or being in nemesis but people get out of range, or whatever. Just not that fun.

The other topic about most popular maps showed that the new maps are mostly in the bottom 10. I’d guess the doing a similar pole on heroes would put a few of the new heroes in the bottom 10 as well for fun. They’re not hitting it out of the park with their new content unfortunately. Mauga was a huge miss and will never be balanced and, even if he is, will not be fun to play with or against. Orisa is not fun to play against. It seems Ram may not be fun to play as.